Financial Aid

How to Plan for College Funding

The average American today is saving less money as people face cuts and unemployment. Parents of college age students are faced with the challenge of financing a college education, when savings are down. The average college will cost $20,000 a year, and that’s a public college figure. The following can help get you [...]

Florida Offers Private College Savings Plan

Parents who are looking for a way to pay for college can start early with a federal prepaid tuition program which is referred to as a 529 plan. States like Florida also have their own savings plan.
While Florida universities are still among the cheapest in the country, tuition at Florida State University, for [...]

New G.I. Bill Now Open For Business

Good news for veterans interested in pursuing a college education: the new G.I. Bill is now accepting applications, meaning new and improved funding for military online schools and traditional schools alike.
Congressman Eric Massa announced that veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq can now sign up for benefits from the New GI Bill. [...]

CollegeNET.com Opens Scholarship Floodgate

CollegeNET.com announced today that it will extend its social network to include private and public scholarship foundations as well as corporate entities.  Scholarship foundations can be in more direct contact with qualified students who are looking for scholarships. 
One of the Internet’s most popular sites for researching and applying to college, CollegeNET.com offers an alternative [...]

Ohio EPA Announces Scholarship

The Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF) announced the availability of environmental education scholarships this week for college students to receive funding for the 2009-2010 school year.  The application process ends on the 1st of June.
The scholarship program is administered for Ohio EPA by the Ohio Academy of Science. It is designed to motivate students to [...]

Middle Class Indiana Families Get Help From Purdue

Since many middle income families do not qualify for Pell grants, this section of the economy often takes out loans to pay fir their children’s higher education.  Purdue University announced a scholarship that would help out some in this middle income category.
A limited number of students from middle-class Indiana families will be eligible for a [...]

ABLE Grants Get Adults Back to School

With budget cuts, tuition hikes and enrollment caps in Florida, state tuition grants are proving to be an effective way of getting working adults back in the classroom.
A prime example is the $4.4 million state Access to Better Learning and Education grant currently assisting more than 3,700 working, adult learners.
The ABLE grant saves taxpayer monies [...]

Full Tuition = High Priority

Have the cash to pay for your college tuition? You might very well be more attractive to colleges than those who are in need of financial assistance.  When making application decisions this year, many colleges are accepting students who have the money to pay full tuition, or those from out of state who have to [...]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

In response to funding crisis at schools nationwide, the President is offering a stimulus package. Here is a quick overview of President Obama’s stimulus package, which is known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The stimulus package allots for $30.8 billion to colleges.
The package also offers $17 million to the Pell Grant program increasing availability [...]

No More Guaranteed Student Loans?

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators fears that Congress is ready to pass legislation that would end the guaranteed student loan program.
In a letter to its members sent today, the association suggests a new federal loan model that would keep all the current participants in the student-loan system but assign them different roles.
Under the [...]